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Peace: The Summum Bonum
of Jews changed as they went into Diaspora. If the ulema
would not have deprived Muslims of modern education,
their mindset would have changed and such a situation
would have never arisen at all. Modern education would
have deconditioned Muslims, but since they did not
accept it their progress did not happen.
29 Muslim youngsters from the world
over are being recruited by ISIS.
How should it be tackled?
he problem is not of ISIS, but of our literature and
Tmedia. A negative mindset was fostered among the
youth by the ulema and by the literature on the political
interpretation of Islam. ISIS simply availed of the
opportunity to recruit these negative Muslim youth.
Some problems do not have a short-term solution as
people so desire. The real solutions to such problems
can be had through long-term effort—by discussions,
intellectual development and spreading of the right
literature. We should work on a long-term peaceful
solution as short-term planning or violence cannot work,
because every act of violence perpetrates revenge.
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